{"id":66515,"date":"2020-06-19T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=66515"},"modified":"2020-06-19T14:19:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T18:19:55","slug":"brock-gets-ready-to-help-grads-celebrate-from-home-with-convocation-in-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/06\/brock-gets-ready-to-help-grads-celebrate-from-home-with-convocation-in-a-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock gets ready to help grads celebrate from home with \u2018Convocation-in-a-box&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Virtual Convocation celebrations are in full swing for the Spring Class of 2020, and the University is keeping the celebrations going with the launch of \u2018Convocation-in-a-box.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>With in-person ceremonies put on hold due to COVID-19 restrictions, the University had to get creative with this year\u2019s celebrations. To ensure the graduates hard work didn\u2019t go unrecognized, a three-step celebration was planned.<\/p>\n<p>Step one began on Friday, June 19 with the kickoff of <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/06\/virtual-spring-convocation-launches-friday-what-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock\u2019s Virtual Spring 2020 Convocation portal<\/a>. The portal is a personalized web-based experience created for graduates and their families to help celebrate their achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very excited to have reached June 19, our Virtual Convocation date,\u201d said Jodi Fitzgerald, Associate Registrar, Enrollment Operations. \u201cThis was just the first step in the Convocation experience for our Spring Class of 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brock is getting ready to commence step two, which is the \u2018Convocation-in-a-Box\u2019 packages that will be sent to all of the Spring graduates.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Convocation-in-a-Box\u2019 packages include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The graduate\u2019s degree parchment<\/li>\n<li>A ceremony program booklet<\/li>\n<li>Celebratory confetti that has been specially produced for Brock&#8217;s Class of 2020<\/li>\n<li>Congratulatory messages<\/li>\n<li>A copy of\u00a0<em>Surgite<\/em>, the alumni magazine<\/li>\n<li>An alumni pin<\/li>\n<li>Information from Brock\u2019s Alumni Association; and<\/li>\n<li>Information on how to purchase a degree frame from the Brock Campus Store<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of the graduates will receive their packages in the mail, which will be sent out in early July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all extremely proud of the Class of 2020,\u201d said Fitzgerald. \u201cThe University will forever remember this special graduating class. We wish them well in their future endeavours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final step for the graduates\u2019 Convocation experience will be an on-campus, in-person event. This will be planned for a future date once deemed safe to do so by Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>To help further celebrate the graduates, Brock\u2019s Campus Store is offering up to 30 per cent off for the Class of 2020 until July 31. The sale includes 15 per cent off of all degree frames and 20 per cent off of alumni tartan gear. Shop the online Grad Shop at <a href=\"http:\/\/campusstore.brocku.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campusstore.brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To join in on Brock\u2019s online celebration, post a photo or video opening the \u2018Convocation-in-a-box\u2019 with #BrockUGrad on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Virtual Convocation celebrations are in full swing for the Spring Class of 2020, and the University is keeping the celebrations going with the launch of \u2018Convocation-in-a-box.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":66520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,36,39,40,188,55,37,41,1,4,38],"tags":[156,9148,9147,1759,9001],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66521,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66515\/revisions\/66521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}